9/11. I was in gradeschool but yeah. For about a year or two I made excuses for the war on terror. I still think about it sometimes.
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I cried and had a panic attack when Bernie lost in 2020 lmao
Hmm. Well I was an anarchist for many many years before reading Marx & Lenin proper. I think my worst thing was believing all the tripe about Stalin from any western source, completely uncritically until I actually decided to examine that on my own. I used to be real bad about “going with the flow” of whatever appeared decent politically, usually some flavor of mainstream liberalism; I’m glad I grew out of that.
Does reading Stirner to impress an old girlfriend count? She considered herself an egoist…my half-serious opinion of that these days is that I think Engels made him up as a joke lol.
Rooted for and voted for a libertarian party in one election because they were against the government reading my emails. Which is fine, I still don't want the government doing that - not that I really sent any emails back then - but I checked years later and turns out they also had some opinions about let's say children and photography that I had not yet learned to associate with the word libertarian.
High school libertarianism.
after the 2016 election i read both hillary and comey's (god, there's a name i haven't thought of in a while) autobiographies to keep my lib brain occupied while waiting on the mueller report
Going to Chicago to protest the war in Iraq.